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This article is about the album by Albert Collins. For the song by Ted Hawkins, see Don't Lose Your Cool (song). 1983 studio album by Albert Collins
Don't Lose Your Cool
Studio album by Albert Collins
Released1983
StudioRed Label Recording, Winnetka, Illinois
GenreBlues
Length40:09
LabelAlligator
ProducerBruce Iglauer, Dick Shurman, Albert Collins
Albert Collins chronology
Frostbite
(1980) 		Don't Lose Your Cool
(1983) 		Cold Snap
(1986)
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The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings

Don't Lose Your Cool is a studio album by the American musician Albert Collins, released in 1983 by Alligator Records.

Track listing

  1. "Get to Gettin'" (Big Walter Price) – 3:12
  2. "My Mind Is Trying to Leave Me" (Percy Mayfield) – 7:42
  3. "Broke" (Chuck Higgins) – 4:12
  4. "Don't Lose Your Cool" (Collins) – 4:39
  5. "When a Guitar Plays the Blues" (Harvard Hables, Roy Lee Johnson) – 5:12
  6. "But I Was Cool" (Oscar Brown, Jr.) – 3:09
  7. "Meltdown" (Collins) – 4:03
  8. "Ego Trip" (Collins) – 4:32
  9. "Quicksand" (Guitar Slim) – 3:28

Personnel

  • Albert Collins - guitar, vocals
The Ice Breakers
  • Johnny Gayden - bass
  • Casey Jones - drums, vocals
  • Larry Burton - guitar
  • Chris Foreman - keyboards
  • A.C. Reed - tenor saxophone
  • Abb Locke, Dino Spells - alto and tenor saxophone
Technical
  • Fred Breitberg - engineer, mixing
  • Michael Weinstein - photography

References

  1. "Don't Lose Your Cool - Albert Collins | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  2. Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.
  3. "Albert Collins and the Ice Breakers/Don't Lose Your Cool". The Washington Informer. Vol. 19, no. 24. Apr 6, 1983. p. 21.
  4. Takiff, Jonathan (19 July 1985). "Blues great Albert Collins was toiling away...". Features. The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 62.
  5. Albert Collins - Deluxe Edition (CD). Albert Collins. Chicago: Alligator Records. 1997. ALCD5601.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. Don't Lose Your Cool (CD). Albert Collins. Chicago: Alligator Records. 1983. ALCD4730.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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